Can’t seem to connect my wordpress quick install droplet to my phpmyadmin droplet with mysql database
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×Hello @mlmarinas ,
Could you please confirm if you’re referring to the phpMyAdmin one-click install from the marketplace? Also, are you using the WordPress one-click install from the marketplace as well?
What is the exact error that you’re receiving when you’re trying to connect?
Regards,
Alex
yes both one-click installs. I get “Error establishing a database connection”
Hello there,
I will recommend you to double-check our tutorial on how to troubleshoot this type of error:
Also please make sure that you can access the phpMyAdmin droplet from the WordPress one-click droplet on port 3306. You can test this from the WordPress droplet using telnet.
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telnet IPofPHPmyAdminDroplet 3306
Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Alex
Hi @mlmarinas,
As far as I understand, you have two Droplets, one that hosts your databases and has phpMyAdmin installed and another that hosts your WordPress website, correct?
If that’s the case and you want to allow connections to MySQL from the WordPress droplet to the Database one, you’ll need to adjust your firewall.
If you are using Iptables you can SSH to your Database Droplet and type in the following :
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 --sport 1024:65535 -d XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --dport 3306 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --sport 3306 -d 0/0 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
Just remember to change XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX with the IP of your WordPress droplet.
If you are using UFW, you can type in the following :
sudo ufw allow from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX to any port 3306
Again, you’ll need to change XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX with the IP of your WordPress droplet.
Regards,
KFSys
Did not work for me. I have the database host set to XXX.XXX.XXX:3306 in my wp-config.php which is the IP of the phpmyadmin one click install. Is this correct?
Hi @mlmarinas
Yes, that should be correct.
If you try to do
telnet XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 3306
from your web droplet where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the Database’s droplet IP what is the output?